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(Continued from Yesterday.)
Among the late klng'a papers they
found an envelope addressed to Hath
lyn. It was In grandiloquent English.
Brevity of speech Is unknown to the
EaKt Indian. Kathlyn read It with
frowning eyes. She gave It to her
father to road: and It hurt her to note
the way his eyes took fire at the con
tents of that letter. The filigree basket
nf gold and goma; the trinkets for
’Which he had risked his own life,
iKatblyn’s, then Winnie’s. In turn
Braoe and R&mabal perused the let
ter; and to Ramabal came the Inspira
tion
They would seek this treasure, but
only he, Ramabal, and Pundlta would
fwtum. Here lay their way to freedom
without calling upon Rails Khan for
aid, The matter, howevor, had to bo
submitted to the priests, and those
wily men In yellow robes agreed. They
could very well promise lhirga Ram
his freedom again; pursue those treas
ure seekers and destroy them, that
{ Wonld be Durga Ram’s ransom.
The return to the palace was Joy
ous this time; but in her heart of
hearts Kathlyn waa skeptical. Till she
trod the deck of a ship homeward
hound she would always be doubting.
Bruoe did not have to seek Data
fChan. The night of Kathlyn’s defi
ance Ahmed had acquainted them with
bis errand. He wan now on bis way
to Bala Khan. They need trouble
themselves no longer regarding the fu
ture.
"All goes well." said Ramabal, "for,
to reach this hiding place, we must
pass the city of Rala Khan. I know
where this cape la. It Is not large.
It Juts out Into the sea. the Poraian
gulf, perhaps half a dosen miles. At
high tide It becomes an Island. None
liven about exoept the simple fisher
man. Still, the Journey Is hazardous.
The truth Is, ft Is a spot where there
Is much gun running; In fact, where
we found our guns and ammunition.
I understand that there are great se
oret stores of explosives hidden there."
"Any seaport nearT" asked the oolo
nel.
"Perhaps swvsmty miles north Is the
very town we stopped st a few weeks
UO"
The colonel seised Knthlvn In his
arms. She played at gaiety for his
sake, but her heart was heavy with
foreboding.
“And the filigree basket shall be di
vided between you and Pundlta, Kit."
“Give It nil to her, father. I have
tootun to hate what men call precious
stones
"It shall be as yon say ; but we may
all take a handful as a keepsake ”
Two days later the expedition was
ready to start. Thay Intended to ptok
up Ahmed on the way. There was
nothins bat the bungalow itself at the
MSP
TJmbnTla was thereupon secretly to
jnen from the treadmill. He wrs given
a darnel and told what to do. He duns.
* curse st the mlnafets and towers
And domes looming mistily In the
( moonlight Hansom? He would de
stroy them; aye, and take the treasure
himself, since he knew where It now
lay, this Information having bsen oh- j
. talnad for trim He would seek the
l,world, choosing his hsbltatlon where
ns would.
Dsy after day be followed, tireless,
Indomitable, as steadfast upon the
trail as a Jackal after a wounded ante
‘ lope. never coming within range, skulk
| tng about the oamp at night, dropping
I behind In the morning, not above pick
Ing up bits' of food 14ft by the irons
I Bro seekers Money and revenge;
| these would have kept him to the
chase had he been dying!
As for Hals Khan, he was at once
gtad and sorry to see his friends
Nothing would have pleased him more
■than to fall upon AUaha like the tbun
■derbolt he whs. Rut he made Kamnbal
■procnlss that If ever he had need of
■llm. to send And Ranmhal promised.
Sloping that he could adjust nnd regu
late his affairs without foreign assist
ance. They went on. this time with
lAhmed
Toward the end of the Journey they
Would be compelled to cross a chaam
on a rope and Tine bridge Umballa.
knowing this, circled and reached this
bridge before they did. He set about
weakening the supports, so that the
weight of passengers could osuse the
structure to break and fall Into the
torrent below. He could not other
wise reach the spot where the treasure
lay waiting
The elephants would ba forced to
ford the rapids below tbe bridge.
(Kathlyn, who had by this time re.
gained much of ber old confidence aud
buoyancy, declared that she must be
first to cross tbe bridge. Sbe gained
the middle, when she felt s sickening
aag. She turned and ahouted to the
others to go back. She made a dee
perate effort to reach the far end; but
tbe bridge gave way. and she was
I burled Into the swirling rapids She
I was stunned for a moment; but the In
r etlnct to live was strong. As sbe
swung to snd fro, whlHed here, flung
there, sbe managed to catch hold of a
rook which projected above the flying
The Adventures of Kathlyn
By HAROLD MAC GRATH
Illustrated by Pictures from tbe Moving Picture Production of the Sellg Polyscope Cm
'X mnhout, seeing her danger, urged
his elephant toward her and reached
her Juat as she was about to let go.
CHAPTER XXIV.
In Bearch of Treasure.
"Those ropes were cut,” declared
Ahmed.
"Rut who In the world could have
cut them?” demanded the colonel.
Ahmed shrugged. "We may have
been followed by thieves. They could
have gotten here before us, as we were
forced to use the elephant trails. Let
us keep our eyes about us, sahib.
When one speaks of gold, the wind
carries the word far. And then . .
He paused, scowling.
"And then what?”
“I do not want the memsahlb to
hear,” Ahmed whispered. "But who
shall say that this Is not the work of
the gurus, who never forget, who never
forgive, sahib?”
“Rut. they would not follow!"
“Nay, but their servant would, on
the fear of death. I will watch at
night hereaftor.”
Ahmed searched thoroughly about
the ledge from which the east side of
the bridge had swung, but the barren
rocks told him nothing. Armed with
his rifle, he plunged boldly back along
the elephant trail, but returned with
out success. Whoever was following
them was an adept, as secret as a
Thuggee. All this worried Ahmed not
a little. He readily understood that
the murderous attempt had not been
directed against Kathlyn alone, but
against all of them. Hut for her eager
noss and subsequent warning some of
them would have been dead at this mo
ment.
"Sahib, It would be better to make
ramp on the other side of tho ford.
The memsahlb Is weak from the shock
and might collapse if we proceeded.”
"I leave everything to you, Ahmed.
Rut Is there not some placo farther
below where the water does not run so
fastT”
"llamabni will know."
But Hamabal knew only the bridge.
They would have to Investigate and
explore the bank. Half an hour's Jour
ney—rather a difficult one—brought
them to still and shallow water. Here
they crossed and made camp beyond,
In a natural clearing. They erected
the small tent for Kathlyn, Inside of
which she changed her clothes, drank
her tea and lay down to sloep.
"What does Ahmed think?" asked
Bruce anxiously.
"That wo are being followed by
some assassins hired by our friends
the priests."
"Colonel, let us make straight for
the port snd let this damnable bushel
of trinkets stay where It la,” urged
Bruce, the lover.
"That Is not possible now," replied
Hamabal "Wo can now reach there
only by tho sencoast Itself, or return
to tho desort nnd Journey over the old
trail. We must go on."
The colonel smoked his pipe mood
ily. He wss pulled between necessity
and desire. He had come (o Asia for
this filigree basket, and he wanted It,
with a passion which was almost
miserly. At one moment he silently
vowed to oust the whole thing Into the
sea. and st the next hls Angers would
twitch snd he would sigh.
Sometimes It seemed to him shat
there was some Invisible force work
ing In him, drawing and drawing him
against tbe dictates of hls heart He
had experienced this feeling back In
California, and had fought against It
for weeks, without avail And frequent
ly now, when alone nnd undisturbed,
he oould see the old guru, shaking
with tha venom of hls wrath, the blood
dripping from hls laceratad fingers,
which he shook In tha colonal'a face,
flecking It with blood. A curse. It
was so. He must obey that Invisible
will; he must go on and on.
Hls pipe slipped from hls fingers and
bis head fell upon hls knees; and thus
Kathlyn found him.
"Let him sleep, memsshfb," warned
Ahmed from across the Are. "He has
been lighting ths old guru “
"What?" Kathlyn whispered back.
"Where?"
Ahmed smiled grimly and pointed to
ward hls forehead.
'is there really such evil. Ahmed?”
"Evil begets evil, heaven born, Juet
as good begets good The Colonel So
hlb did wrong. And who shall deny
some of these gurus a supernatural
power? I have aeen; I know."
"Rut once you said that we should
sventually escape, all of us."
"And 1 still say It, memaahlb. What
Is written Is written.” phlegmatically.
Wearily ehe turned toward her tent,
hut paused to touch the head of her
(•sleeping father ae she passed. Her
( occidental mind would not and could
j not accept as possibilities thess mys
j terlous attributes of tbe oriental mind.
, That a will could reach out and pro
arrange a man's mMortunes wss to
her mind lncredlbls, for there were no
precedents She never had witnessed
s genuine esse of hypnotism, those ex
amples she had seen were miserable
buffooneries, travesties, hoodwinking
not even the newsboys In the upper
gallery. True, she had read of sutji
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thlngß, but from the name angle with
which she had read the Arabian Nights
—fairy stories.
Yet, here was her father, thoroughly
convinced of the efficacy of the guru's
curse; and here was Ahmed, compla
cently watching the effects, and not
doubting In the least that his guru
would In the end prove the stronger
of the two.
One of the elephants clanked his
chains restlessly. He may have heard
the prowling of a cat. Far beyond the
fire, beyond the sentinel, she thought
she saw a naked form flash out and
back of a tree. She stared Intently at
the tree for a time; but as she saw
nothing more, she was convinced that
her eyes had deceived her. Besides,
her body seemed dead and her mind
too heavy for thought.
llmballa, having satisfied himself
that the camp would not break till
morning, slunk away Into the shadows.
He had failed again; but his bate had
made him strotig. He was naked ex
cept for a loin clout. His board and
hair were matted, the latter hanging
over his eyes. His body was smeared
with ashes. Not even Ahmed would
have recognized him a yard off. He
had something less than nine hourß to
reach the capo before they did; and it
was necessary that he should have ac
complices. The fishermen he knew to
be of predatory habits, and the prom
ise of gold would enmesh them.
The half Island which constituted
the cape had the shape of a miniature
volcano. There was verdure at the
base of Its slope and trees lifted their
heads here and there hardily. It was
a mile long and a half mile wide; and
In tho oarly morning It Btood out like a
huge sapphire against the rosy sky.
Rotween the land and the promontory
there lay a stretch of glistening sand;
there was half a mile of It. Over this
a flock of gulls were busy, as scaven
gers always are. At high tide, yonder
was an Island In truth.
Sometimes a British gunboat would
drop down here suddenly; but It al
ways wasted Its time. The fishermen
knew nothing; nothing in the way of
guns and powder ever was found; and
yet the British raj knew that some
where about lay tho things for which
It so diligently and vigorously sought.
On the beach fishermen were disem
barking. A sloop with a lateen sail lay
at anchor In the rude harbor. Some of
the fishermen were repairing nets,
and some wore tinkering about their
fishing boats. Beyond the beach
nestled a few huts. Toward these
other fishermen were making prog
ress.
The chief of the village—the head
man —disembarked from this Bloop. He
was met by his wife and child, and
the little one clambered about hls legs
in ecstasy. Among the huts stood one
more Imposing than the others, and
toward this the chief and hls family
wended their way. In front of the hut
stood an empty bullock cart. Attached
to one of the wheels was a frisking kid.
The little child paused to play with
her pet.
Absorbed In her pastime, sbe did not
observe the approach of a gaunt be
ing with matted hair and beard and
ash besmeared body. Children are
gifted with an Instinct which leaves us
os we grow older; the sensing of evil
without seeing or understanding It.
The child suddenly gazed up. to meet
a pair of eyes btnek and fierce as a
kite’s. She rose screaming and fled
toward the house.
The holy roan shrugged and waited.
When the parents rushed out to
learn what had frightened their little
one they were solemnly confronted by
Umballa
••I am hungry."
The chief salaamed and ordered hls
wife to bring tbe holy man rice and
milk.
"Thou art an honest man,” said Um
balla.
"It Is said," replied the chief grav«-
l r
"Thou art poor."
"That Is with the gods I serve."
"But thou art not without ambi
tion "
"Who Is?" The chiefs wonder grew.
What meant theee peculiar eenteneaa?
“Wouldat put thy hand Into gold as
far as the wrist and take what thou
couldst hold?"
"Yes, holy one; for I am human.
Whither lead theee questions? What
Is It you would of mes"
'There are eoma who need to be far
away to see things. Well, good man,
there Is a treasure under your test."
falling Into ths vernacular.
The chief could not resist looking
down at the ground, startled.
"Nay," smiled Umballa, “not there.
Think; did not something unusual
happen here five years ago?”
The chief smoothed the tip of hls
nose "My father died and 1 became
headman of the village.'*
"Would you call that unusual?"
Ironically
“No. Ha!" suddenly. "Five years
ago; yea, yea, I remember now. Sol
diers, who made us lock ourselves In
our huts, not to stir forth on the pain
of death till ordered. My father alone
was permitted outside. He was com
pelled to row out to the Island. There
*ros blindfolded _Quly two men ac
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oompanied him. They some
thing that was very heavy. My father
pever knew what the strange, shining
basket held. Then the soldiers went
away and we came out No one was
allowed on the Island till my father
died."
“Did he tell you what It was he
helped bury yonder?"
"No, holy one. He was an honorable
man. Whatever the secret was, it
passed with him. We were not curi
ous."
"It was the private treasure of the
king of Allaha, and the man was the
king himself.”
The fisherman salaamed.
"And I am sent, because I am holy,
to recover this treasure, which was
willed to the temple of Juggernaut”
“But, holy one, I know not where It
Is hidden!”
“I do. What I want is the use of
your sloop and men I can trust. To
you, as much gold as your hands can
hold.”
“I will furnish you with men at hon
est as myself.”
"That will be sufficient; and you
shall have your gold.”
The word of a holy man Is never
subjected to scrutiny In India.
Umballa was In good humor. Here
he was, several hours ahead of his
enemies. He would have the filigree
basket dug up and transferred to the
sloop before the Colonel Sahib could
reach the village. And Umballa would
have succeeded but for the fact that
the wind fell unaccountably and they
lost more than an hour In handling the
aloop with oars.
When the sloop left the primitive
landing the chief returned to bis hut
and told hts wife what had taken place,
like the good husband he was. They
would be rich.
Suddenly the child set up a walling.
Through the window she had seen a
bold leopard trot over to the bullock
cart and carry away the kid. The
chief at once summoned his remaining
men, and they proceeded to set a trap
for the prowler. The cat had already
killed one bullock and Injured another.
They know that the boast would not
return for some hours, having gorged
Itself upon the kid. But It was well to
be prepared.
Toward noon the other treasure
seekers drew up within a quarter of
a mile behind the village. The men
folk thought It advisable to reconnol
ter before entering the village. One
never couM tell. Winnie declared her
Intention of snoozing while they wait-
Kathlyn, Bruce and the Colonel Plan.
ed, and curled up In her rugs. Kath
lyn, however, could not resist the
longing to look upon the sea again.
She could see the lovely blue water
through the spaces between the trees.
Soon she would be flying over that wfe
tor, flying for home, home!
She went farther from the camp
than she really Intended, and came un
expectedly upon the leopard, which
stood guarding Its cubs while they
growled and tore at the dead kid.
Kathlyn realized that she was un
armed, and that the leopard was be
tween her and the camp. She could
see the roofs of the village below her;
so toward the huts she ran. Tbe leop
ard stood still for a while, eyeing her
doubtfully, then made up its mind to
give chase. She had tasted blood, but
had not eaten.
Meantime the little child had forgot
ten her loss In her Interest in the bul
lock cart with Its grotesque lure; and
aha climbed into tho cart just as Kath
lyn appeared, followed by the excited
toopard. She saw the child and
anatched her Instinctively from the
cart. The leopard leaped Into the cart
at the rear, while Kathlyn ran toward
the chiefs hut. Into which she stag
gered without the formality of an
nouncing her advent
The father of the child had no need
to question, though he marveled at the
white skin snd dress of this visitor,
who had doubtless saved hls child from
death. He flung the door shut and
dropped the bar. Next be sought hls
gun and fired through a crack In the
door. He missed, but the noise and
smoke frightened the leopard away.
And lateif Bruce, wild with anxiety
over tbe disappearance of Kathlyn.
came aoross the chief battling for hls
life. He had gone forth to hunt the
leopard, and the leopard had hunted
him. Bruce dared not fire, for fear
of killing the man; so without hesl
tanoe or fear ha caught the leopard by
the back of the neck and by a hind leg
and swung her Into the sea.
The chief was severely mauled, but
he was able to get to hls feet and
walk. The white woman had saved hie
child and tbe white man had saved
him. He would remember.
Thus the leopard quite Innocently
served a purpose, for all her doadly In
tentions; the chief was filled with
gratitude.
When the colonel and the others
came Into view the former seized Kath
lyn by the shoulders and shook w
hysterically.
(To B« C i-ittnued Tomorrow.)
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In the Past til isisap
prteien
HOW CHRIST WILL APPEAR.
Messiah Comes to Bless—First His
Faithful Church, Secondly All People.
Scriptures Previously Misunderstood.
The Man of Sorrows No Longer—He
Comes the King of Glory—A Quick
ened Spirit—Secretly, as a Thief In
the Night—Later Revealed to All.
Utica, N. Y..
Aug. 10. Pastor
Russell was pres
ent at the opening
of the Photo-Dra
ma of Creation
here today. The
object of the Dra
ma Is declared to
be the re-establish
ment of faith in
the Bible. Mani
festly, it Is splen
didly adapted to
this end. None can
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witness it without experiencing a deep
er reverence for God and a stronger
desire for righteousness. It tells the
simple Bible story from first to last,
and It Illustrates it all with most beau
tiful pictures. Excepting the first
part, nearly all the films are richly
hand-colored, and in this respect supe
rior to anything ordinarily shown.
in the morning address, the Tastor
spoke on “The Second Coming of
Christ,” from tho text. “When Christ,
who is our life, shall appear, then shall
V« also appear with Him In glory.”—
Colossians 3:4.
Sympathy was expressed for the
long-held view that Jesus, at His Sec
ond Coming, would be a man In the
flesh to reign as an earthly monarch:
nevertheless, the speaker styled this
view absurd. Christ had accomplish
ed the work for which He was made
flesh. He was glorified and ascended
up to Heaven—"where He was before”
—on the spirit plane. The One who is
to come ngain Is the Lord of Glory,
and not tho man of sorrows, and He
Is to come In power and great glory.
The Pastor explained that Jesus at
His Second Coining in glory would not
be visible to human eyes—even us an
gels of glory are Invisible to men. Nor
would it be advantageous to the world
that their physical eyes should be open
ed as were those of Saul of Tarsus
The effect might be the same. Th<
promise of the Bible, that “all the
blind eyes shall be opened.” and that
“Every eye shall see Him” relates not
to the natural eye. but to the eyes ol
understanding, so long darkened, con
fused, bewildered, by error. The True
Light will shine; the True Knowledge
of the Lord will fill the earth and all
will receive a blessing thereby.
Christ’s Parousia and Epiphania.
Careful Bible study reveals the fact
that different Greek words are used
In respect to Christ’s Second Coming
One word, parousia, signifies proseuci
—not coming in our ordinary use ol
the word. Over and over again the
Scriptures tell of the Presence of the
Son of Man In the end of this Age
and relate that during Hls Parousia
the world will be unaware of It. and
attending to the ordinary affairs of
life. Tbe only ones who will know will
be the most saintly p«>ple of God
And these win know, not by some out
ward sign, but by tbe Light of tbe
Lamp of God’s Word. “Ye, brethren,
are not In darkness, that that day
should overtake you ns a thief”—though
It shall come ns a thief and ns a snare
on all the world.—l Tbessalouians 5:4.
An Increasing number of Bible Stu
dents all over the world are convinced
from the Scriptural testimony, backed
by the outward evidences, that tbe
Parousia of our Lord began In October.
1874. Tbe great enlightenment that
has come to tbe world as well as t<i
Bible Students during tbe period sine*
Is accredited to tbe fact that we havn
been living In the dawning time of tht
New Dispensation.
But the Scriptures with equal clear
ness point out that the Presence of
Jesus is to be made manifest to
world. He Is to "appear,” to be "re
vented.” Hls Presence Is to be made
known to tbe whole world so that ev
cry eye may see Him; that Is, that the
eyes of understanding of tbe whole
human family may be opened to u
realisation of the great tmtb that
Messiah's Kingdom has come into
power, and Is thenceforth to rule tbe
world, to overthrow sin, to uplift
righteousness, to.bless all the willing
and obedient and to destroy In the
Second Death all wilful sinners.
According to the Bible, It be a
terrible, rude shock that will startle
the world and open the eyes and earv
of their understanding and prepare
them for the Highway of Holiness
.The revealing, or manifesting, to the
world of Messiah's Presence ns the
New Ruler of earth, will come with a
great Time of Trouble, which the
Prophet declares will be severer than
anything ever before known—"A time
of trouble, such as never was sines
there was a nation" (Daniel 12:1). It
will be a time of Judgments, of pun
ishments, upon Rations, individuals
and ecclesiastical systems, as well as
upon inequitable financial Institutions
Tho symbolic picture Is that tbe
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whole tatiiac or society, ecclesiastical,
political, financial, will be “on fire.” St.
Peter declares symbolically that “the
elements will melt with fervent heat’’—
the social elements. Concerning that
awful trouble, tbe Bible declares, “He
shall be revealed in flaming fire, taking
vengeance.” All will know, all will
see, all the world will mourn and be In
terror, the more so because of the false
doctrines which have represented that
beyond the present life is an eternity
of torture for ail. except the saintly
elect few. Such wrong of the
future make doubly severe the trials
and disappointments and losses of the
present life which are the real judg
ments of the Lord, the Bible knowing
nothing of an eternity of torture in the
future, but telling us everywhere that
the dead sleep, waiting for the glorious
Kingdom of Him who redeemed them
more than eighteen centuries ago by
the sacrifice of Himself.
Christ will not appear to His Church
in flaming tire—only to the world:
“When He shall appear, then shall ye
also appear with Him In glory.” Be
fore the consummation of that great
Time of Trouble, every saint, every
member of the Church of the First
born, whose names are written in
Heaven, will have been changed from
earthly nature to spirit nature, because
“flesh and blood cannot inherit tne
Kingdom ” Neither will the sympathy
of Christ, or the sympathy of the
Church with poor humanity, interfere
to prevent the great catastrophe with
which this Age will end.
The Kings, Emperors and Czars of
the world would no more give over to
Jesus their power and role and gov
ernment than would the clergy give
over the spiritual control. Tbe Divine
Program seems to be to allow human
institutions to wreck themselves in
showing their own incompetency and
opposition to the Divine arrangement
Thank God for the better Day be
yond—when the Sun of Righteousness
shall arise with healing In His beams
for the blessing of all the families of
the earth! Thank God that the Re
deemer, full of sympathy, will be wise
to know how deeply the plowshare of
sorrow and trouble may go to properly
prepare the hearts of men for the rich
blessings His Millennial Kingdom will
have to bestow! Thank God for the
assurance that Messiah’s Kingdom will
prove to be “the desire of all nations.”
How Christ Will Come.
How unreasonable, how unscripturr.'.,
we now see were the theories respect
ing the Second Coming of Christ hand
ed down from a darker time! We wen
informed that tbe Redeemer would
come again in the flesh, whose only
glory would be a kind of shining of the
skin. We overlooked entirely the great
change which came to our Master aft
er H'e hud finished tbe sacrificial work
given Him to do. His ascension signi
fied a return not only to Heaven, but
also to tlie Heavenly condition which
He left when He humbled Himself to
be made flesh for the purpose of being
man's Redeemer.
We overlooked the statement that He
was “put to death in flesh, but quick
ened in spirit." We overlooked tbe
fact that tho Master declared, “My
flesh I give for the life of tbe world."
We overlooked tbe fact that the Scrip
tures assure us that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.
and that consequently the elect Church,
before entering tbe Kingdom condl
tion, must be changed by the power
of the First Resurrection—made Heav
enly, or spirit beings, like onr glorified
Redeemer.
From Hie foregoing is it not evident
that the presence of the Lord will not
be discerned except by the few? Tbe
masses will not know, even as tbe
masses knew not in tbe time of Noah
But as Noah and his family knew
about tbe comiug Deluge, so the saints
of God will know approximately the
time of the great trouble with which
this Age will close and the Kingdom
Age be inaugurated. Thus the Apostle
says, “Ye, brethren, are not in dark
ness, that that Day should overtake
you as a thief,” though it shall come
as a snare upon the whole world.—l
Thessalonians 5:1-G.
The period of Christ’s presence, "as
a thief in the night,” unknown to the
world, will be a time of special
scrutiny and judgment in the Church—
a time of giving reward to those found
faithful, This dealing with the Church
Includes, we believe, the Resurrection
reward that will be given to the
Apostles and all the faithful ones of
the Church who have fallen asleep aud
have been waiting for this very hour
and Its blessings.
So the Apostle tells ns that those of
the Church alive and remaining until
that time will not hinder, or prevent,
those who have gone before. The
dead in Christ shall rise first” They
will enter into the Joys of their Lord
first, and will experience the resurrec
tion change first Later on, the breth
ren then living will be dealt with,
down to the last member. Then the
Church having been glorified, the next
step of the Divine Program will be in
order—the Epiphania, or shining forth
of the Lord in glory.
When speaking of Christ's Epiphania,
or revealing, we are not to understand
that nis Paronsla has ceased. Rather,
as at the First Advent Christ’s pres
ence covered a number of years, so
at Qis Second Advent His Paronsla,
nis presence, will be for the entire
thousand years of His Reigu. At the
first however, the Pnrousla will be
known only to the Church, and to them
merely by the eye of faith. Subse
quently. changed by the First Resur
rection, they will see their present
Lord as He is—a spirit Being. Then
will come His Epiphania to the world
—His shining forth in power and great
glory. But this shining forth (Epi
phania) will bring quite a shock of
surprise to the world. It will mean n
sudden blazing forth of God's righteous
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Indignation against everything sinful,
against everything unjust
The poetess caught the proper thought
when writing respecting the Epipbanla
of Christ:
“I see His flaming Judgment*
As they circle all the earth,
The sign* and groanlnga promised
To precede a second birth.
I read His righteous sentence
In the crumbling thrones of earth—
Our King !■ marching on.”
Nevertheless, this flaming forth of
Messlah’o judgments, severely awful
as they will be, will be manifestations
of the Love of God and of Christ. By
the consuming of the dross In the fire
of that tribulation, will be
blessed, transformed, uplifted, devel
oped. This flaming fire In which
Christ and His Church, God's Kingdom
in glory, will be revealed to mankind,
Is elsewhere in the Bible spoken of as
the fire of God’s anger. Of it we read
that the proud and all that do wickedly
will be as stubble, and that the fire of
that time will consume them, root and
branch. The hope, of course, is that as
they realize the changed conditions
they will drop their pride and their
wickedness, and turn unto the Lord.
He will send the flaming fire of judg
ments for the very purpose of consum
ing the world’s impurities, end thus of
blessing and purifying all who will
learn to love righteousness.
When Christ Will Come,
Again -we were misled by eur creed*
in reipect to the time of Christ'a Sec
ond Coming. Some of us declared that
He already had come the second time
and that His Kingdom was set up long
ago. Our Catholic friends claim that
the establishment of the Kingdom took
place in the year SOO, under Rope
111., and that the thousand years of
Christ's Reign are in the past. We
sincerely hope that they are In error;
for. If that theory be correct, Christ's
Kingdom has accomplished far less for
the world than the Bible statement
would lead us to expect Protestants
have also lield that Christ's Kingdom
has been established, that His Reign
began centuries ago; that tbe Church
of England has been reigning, also the
Church of Germany, the Church of
Swedeu and the Church of Russia
each claiming authority in tbe earth.
The majority of Christian people are
much confused, bewildered; hut Bible
students are of late getting a better
focus upon this subject. They are
seeing that, according to the Bible, we
should still pray, "Thy Kingdom come;
Thy will he done on earth, as It is done
in Heaven:” that we should still wish
fop the Son of God from Heaven, and
that we should still remember St
Peter’s words respecting the Times of
Restitution, blessing and favor, which
will come to the world at tbe Second
Advent of Christ-Acts 3:19-21.
Admitting that those who Interpret
the prophecies to teach that we are
now living In the time of the Second
Advent of Christ are not Infallible la
their interpretation, we must, neverthe
less, concede that there are signs all
about us today which closely tally
with what the Bible tells us respecting
the condition of things which will de
tain at Christ's Second Coming. Let
us note some of these: St. Paul to!d
of the end of the Age (also St. Peter),
that it would be marked by a form of
Godliness but lack the power; that it
would be marked by disobedience to
parents, l>y heartiness, by high-minded
ness, by love of pleasure, by unre
liability. (2 Timothy 3:1-5.) Surely we
see on every hand what answers well
to these Apostolic prophecies of the
closing time of this Age and the dawn
ing of the New Age.
On the other hand, we have
prophecies which tell us of glorious
blessings due to come to tho world in
conjunction with Messiah’s Second Ad
vent Hearken m the Lord's Word
In the prophecy of Daniel. Wo read
that in the Time of the End (of the
present order of things—ln tbe time of
the dawning of the new order of
things) (1) “Many shall run to and
fro;” (2) “Knowledge shall be in
creased;" (3i "The wise shall under
stand;” (1) “There shall be a time of
trouble such us never was since there
was a nation.”
Are we not at the time when the
whole world is on the move ns never
before in the past? Steamboats, steam
and electric railways, etc., are only a
century old and fife only reaching their
climax of efficiency. It would seem as
though God had prospered human in
telligence along those lines just at the
opportune moment to bring in the run
ning to and fro at the appropriate time
—ln the end of this Age.
How about the increase of knowl.
edge? Is It not true that greater la
crease has been made in knowledge
within the past fifty years than evei
before? Not only Is this knowledge
exemplified in tunnels, bridges, build
lngg, machinery, electric lighting ant
power, and iu ever)’ conceivable devle*
for human comfort, but it is especially
marked in human education. Within
the past thirty years free schools, yea.
compulsory education, have seemingly
been forced upon the people of every
land, as though to fulfil this prophecy,
"Knowledge shall be increased.”
What about the statement that the
wise shall understand? Many are per
plexed by these things and wondering
ly are deserting the Bible and flocking
to evolution theories, only to find them
nnwise. The wise are those who hold
fast to the Word of God, and in its in
creasing light gee new beauties. The
only satisfactory explanation of the
times in which we are living Is that
these are the dag* of the Sen-of Man.
Do not these thing* give the people
of God a ground for faith that w«
are now in the closing of this Age
and in the dawning of the Messianic
Age. when the world Is to be blessed -
by God's Kingdom? Many, of course,
may scoff at the thought; but many
others, God's saintly ones, ore lifting
np their head* and rejoicing, “knowing
that their redemption die weth nigh."
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